White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)

Directed by

W. S. Van Dyke, Robert J. Flaherty

Genre

drama film, silent film, action film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 28m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A doctor travels to the Marquesas Islands where he encounters colonial exploitation and falls in love with a native woman. The film was one of the first to feature synchronized music and sound effects.

exoticromanticadventurousmusicalvisually lushdramatichistorical

What happens

White Shadows in the South Seas is a 1928 American synchronized sound romantic adventure film directed by W.S. Van Dyke and starring Monte Blue and Raquel Torres. It was produced by Cosmopolitan Productions in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, who distributed the film. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-film Western Electric Sound System process. Loosely based on the travel book of the same name by Frederick O'Brien, this film is important historically for being the first sound MGM film to be released with a pre-recorded soundtrack. Clyde De Vinna won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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